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The WIldcats are the athletic teams of Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. The school colors are purple and white and all teams compete in the Big Ten conference. The women's lacrosse team has won the National Championship five times and the football team has been ranked No. 1 twice in school history. Famous athletes include Joe Girardi, Mike Adamle, Luke Donald, Betty Robinson, Todd Martin, Otto Graham and Matt Grevers.

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With five seconds left and the No. 5 Maryland women's basketball team assured of perfection in the Big Ten Conference, coach Brenda Frese approached Brene Moseley near the bench during a stoppage in play Sunday for a long embrace.
Frese had turned to...

Freshmen Megan Whittle (McDonogh) and Taylor Hensh (Marriotts Ridge) each had a hat trick as the No. 1 Maryland women's lacrosse team (3-0) pushed past host Hofstra (2-2) in a dominant 14-6 win Saturday.
Whittle had three goals for the second straight...

When the Big Ten held media day for women's basketball in mid-October, coaches hailed the arrival of Maryland as a boon to the profile of the conference by selecting it as the favorite to win the regular season title.
They spoke about the Terps' depth,...

As the lone senior on the Maryland women's basketball team, Laurin Mincy was the center of attention in a pregame ceremony on senior night Thursday honoring a resilient career that included overcoming a torn ACL as a junior.
Then the redshirt shooting...

No. 1 Denver men (2-0) @ No. 4 North Carolina (4-0)
Friday, 4 p.m.
Outlook: The Tar Heels' last three seasons have come to a sudden end at the hands of the Pioneers, who still trail, 8-4, in the series. This matchup pits two of the top offenses in...

Maryland coach Mark Turgeon had been waiting four years for a meaningful win with national significance. Dez Wells had been waiting three years for a signature performance that fans will talk about long after he leaves college.
Together, they and the No....

Selena Lasota, Northwestern
Campbell River, British Columbia, freshman midfielder
In her first college game Saturday, Lasota scored the game-winning goal in overtime as the No. 8 Wildcats rallied from seven goals down to beat USC, 12-11, at the Los...

No. 1 Denver men (0-0) @ No. 3 Duke (2-0)
When: Saturday, 3 p.m.
Outlook: The Blue Devils opened the season with victories at High Point and against Air Force. They are 5-3 against the Pioneers and have won the past two meetings, but will reportedly...

Whatever silver lining the Maryland men's basketball team is taking from Sunday's 71-55 loss at Iowa, it probably has a few perforations, much like the defense the Terps are playing these days.
The most glaring difference between the team that won five...

Richaud Pack started the last part of his five-year college basketball journey by showing those who didn’t think he could play at a high-major program how far he had come since his high school years in Detroit.
Over Maryland’s first 18 games, the...

Maryland is ahead of schedule in the Big Ten.
The preseason favorites to win the league locked up a share of the regular-season title and the top seed in the conference tournament by beating Wisconsin, 81-70, on Thursday night for the Terps' 18th...

The Maryland men's and women's basketball teams are still contenders to win the Big Ten Conference in their first season. But it's never too early to start looking ahead.
The conference announced Thursday which opponents each Big Ten basketball team will...

If the Maryland men's basketball team's return to prominence this season can be tied to the arrival of Melo Trimble, so, too, can the Terps' recent slippage.
After leading Maryland to its first national ranking and the brink of its first NCAA...

More than two months removed from fracturing his right wrist after hitting the floor at the Sprint Center in Kansas City in the first minute of Maryland’s upset of No. 11 Iowa State, senior guard Dez Wells finally looked like the player who started the...

When a college athletics conference introduces a new sport, it usually takes a while to get up to speed and compete on a national level. Not Big Ten women's lacrosse. It went from 0 to 60 in an instant.
With the two most successful programs in the...

As the 2015 women's lacrosse season begins, a glance at the top teams in the country and the other Division I teams in the state:
Projected NCAA seeds:
1. MARYLAND
Big Ten Conference
Last season: 23-1, NCAA champion
Coach: Cathy Reese (ninth...

As Maryland begins the second half of its first Big Ten season Wednesday against Penn State, we are going to take a look at the individual performances of the players and the coaching of Mark Turgeon to see which way they are trending and what each has to...

The Super Bowl is in the rearview mirror, meaning there's no good reason not to start dedicating most of your sports attention toward the NCAA tournament.
Maryland is still in great shape to return to the Big Dance for the first time since 2010, but...

The Maryland men’s basketball team's overall record and body of work throughout the 2014-15 season have put the Terps in far better position to secure the program's first NCAA tournament bid since Mark Turgeon took over four years ago.
Though certainly...